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Free market forces cause a change in behavior, though not the one you think is ideal. We would most likely install more air conditioning. Property values would
by burfog 8y ago
Free market forces cause a change in behavior, though not the one you think is ideal. We would most likely install more air conditioning. Property values would change, with both winners and losers. Canada would benefit greatly.
No, we wouldn't stop the temperature rise, but that wouldn't be the end of the world. Alternatives are not viable because even the most brutally abusive whole-world government wouldn't be able to stop cheaters, and anyway in that case the cure is worse than the disease.
- hn_throwaway_99 8y agoSevere climate change of that which is estimated if we don't change course would cause the deaths of hundreds of millions if not billions of people. Talking about installing more AC and changing property values seems to be missing the point.
- burfog 8y agoIf we do change course, that would cause the deaths of hundreds of millions if not billions of people. This is what it would take to change course. You'd have to send the dissenters off to prison camps, which would realistically become death camps. The required level of control was tried in the 20th century, for just a moderate portion of the world, and that is exactly what happened. You simply can't make the entire world change course, not without killings done on a scale never seen before.